Anchor mounting and positioning device



April 5, 1955 R. D. OGG ETAL 2,705,457

ANCHOR MOUNTING AND POSITIONING DEVICE Filed Jan. 7, 1954 g, 5 INVENTORSgabeg'faa 5 5% M mm an or EC/(HOFF a SLICK ATTORNEYS 4 MEMBER OF THEFIIZM United States Patent ANCHOR MOUNTING AND POSITIONING DEVICE RobertD. Ogg, Kensington, Calif., and William S. Danforth, Southport, Maine,assignors to Danforth Anchors, a corporation of California ApplicationJanuary 7, 1954, Serial No. 402,789

1 Claim. (Cl. 114-221) This invention relates to a device forpositioning and securing an anchor in position on the deck of a boat.

It is in general the broad object of the present invention to provide anovel and simple structure which can be readily atfixed to the deck of aboat to position and to secure an anchor in place. As is well-known, apivoting fluke anchor includes a pair of fiukes joined together as aunit and hingedly mounted at the end of a shank, the anchor including asuitable crown structure at the rear of the flukes to enable the flukesto engage bottom promptly. As typical of anchors with which this invention is particularly concerned, one can refer to the anchors shown inPatents 2,249,546, 2,320,966, 2,354,666, 2,510,867, 2,576,390,2,641,215, and 2,643,631.

The invention includes other objects and features of advantage, some ofwhich, together with the foregoing, will appear hereinafter wherein thepresent preferred form of anchor positioning and securing device of thisinvention is disclosed.

In the drawing accompanying and forming a part hereof, Figure 1 is aplan view of the device shown with an anchor in position on the deck ofa vessel.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the device in place on the deck of a vessel,the anchor being omitted for clarity in illustration.

Figure 3 is an end view of a crown supporting device.

Figure 4 is a section taken along the line 4--4 in Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a plan view of the shank securing device.

Figure 6 is an end view of one of the devices utilized to secure thepoint of the fluke.

Referring to the drawing, and particularly to Figure 2 thereof, thedevice of the present invention comprises a crown securing device 7,fluke point supporting devices 8, and a shank end supporting device 9.Each of these is secured to the ships deck 11 as by suitable screws 12.

The crown supporting device includes a crown support plate 13 having apair of upstanding cars 14 thereon, these being bent over as at 16 andflaring outwardly and upwardly from the plate 13 (Figure 4) to receiveand retain some portion of the crown such as one of crown plates 17.Thus, referring to Figure 1, the anchor there shown corresponds to thatshown in Patent 2,641,215, and includes spaced crown plates 17 mountedat the rear of flukes 18, the latter being hinged at the rear end ofshank 19 while a stock 21 is positioned transversely at the rear end ofthe fiukes. The forward end 22 of the shank is provided with suitablecable attachment means, such as a shackle, this being attached in turnto a chain or cable, these being omitted from the drawing. Plate 13 alsohas ribs 20 thereon which follow in a substantially parallel spacedrelationship the upward flare of the underside of cars 16 to engage andretain the engaged crown plate.

Each tip or point 23 of a fluke 18 is received in a suitable receptacle8 including a supporting plate 26 having spaced vertical walls 27 and28, the walls being at an angle to one another correspondingsubstantially to the angle of the tip or point of the fluke.

The shank end support means 9 includes a base plate 31 having anupstanding cleat structure 32 thereon, the cleat structure being slottedas at 33 to receive the end of the shank. The cleat structure enables apiece of cord to be passed about the ears 34 of the cleat and over theend of the shank to secure the latter in place when the crown plates aresecurely retained by the crown support means 7.

The crown support means, the fluke tip support means, and the shank endsupport means have been shown as fabricated from separate elements sothat these can be conveniently manufactured to provide a structurehaving a minimum of weight and which may be secured in any desiredposition on the deck of a boat or ship. If desired, however, the threestructures or any combination thereof can be provided integrally on asuitable base plate which, in turn, can be mounted upon the deck of aboat with the four elements arranged in a predetermined and selectedposition.

From the foregoing, we believe it will be apparent that we have provideda relatively novel, simple and improved device for positioning andsecuring a pivoting fluke anchor upon the deck of a boat.

We claim:

A hold down device for securing to a ships deck a pivoting fluke anchorhaving twin flukes, each fluke hav ing a pointed end, the anchor alsoincluding opposite planar crown plates which extend generally parallelto the flukes and which are spaced apart at the rear of the anchor, theanchor having a shank extending forwardly beyond the points of thefiukes, said device comprising a crown support adapted to be secured tosaid ships deck to support the crown end of the anchor and havingspaced, slotted ears adapted to receive and fit over the underside of acrown plate in a locking engagement therewith, the slots in said earsbeing parallel to the deck so that the crown is secured against verticalas well as horizontal dislodgment, a pair of triangular receptacles eachadapted to be secured to said ships deck in a position corresponding tothat of a fluke point when the crown plate is locked in the ears on thecrown support, each receptacle corresponding cooperatively to the flukepoint resting therein to retain such point in a locking engagement whenthe crown plate is engaged with the slotted ears of the crown support,and a cleat adapted to be secured to said ships deck in a positioncorresponding to that of the forward end of the shank when the crownplate is locked in the ears on the crown support and the fluke pointsare in said receptacles, said cleat having a slot on its upper sideprovided between opposite spaced arms on the cleat, said slot beingadapted to receive the shank end, and said arms extending outwardly anddownwardly to provide rope-fastening ears to secure the shank in saidslot.

References Cited in the file of this patent Willis 1949 Catalog ofMarine Supplies, pages 89 (R-874) and 90 (R-863).

Wm. H. Whiting Co. Marine and Industrial Supplies, Fire ProtectionEquipment No. 17 (1949), page 181, Figure 1814.

